The Girl Who Hacked The Magic System

PoV: Aurea

"So, then you didn’t explore further."

"Yeah..."

I sit at Lovelace’s side and hug her tight.

"It’s okay... Healing is not linear; we often have those highs and lows. It was not your fault."

"I know... it’s just... I really thought that I was already beyond it."

We are in my private quarters in the Academy’s dorms. She came to me right after doing the investigation on the Church.

I want to reprimand her for going in there alone, but it’s not the time.

She’s clearly very upset and downcast after seeing her ex’s stuff. Totally comprehensible, considering that said ex ended with her by sticking a literal knife to her back.

And a knife that was able to cut out her memories, cutting through her very soul. There are so many layers of ’knife on the back’ in this case that it makes me sick.

So, basically, she had a PTSD episode under the main temple of the Church. Alone. And then simply ran away as fast as she could, after spending some time trying to deal with those feelings by herself.

And then she came straight here, to me.